Baby Names Rant!
I can be quite an opinionated person, for those of you that know me you are probably rolling your eyes now…. I was reading a news item in the November copy of Writing Magazine called Name Dropping. It was talking about Charles Dickens giving his characters strange last names and then talking about celebs calling…
The mark of a good book
So it’s nearly 1 in the morning and I have a busy day ahead, I had planed an early night because of this but instead I got drew into reading Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. I have read the book several times and it is by far one of my favourite series (Sword of…
NaNo and writing
After reading a post on a fellow writers Blog it has spurred me on to actually post something in here. My NaNo journey is plodding along, I have managed to stay on target and I need to have a blast this weekend to get out ahead as I always end up where I have days…
Stand Up Desk :)
I was browsing the Pulse app on my tablet and I came on an article from the IT blog It was about changing your workplace into the stand up desk concept. The idea is that when working standing up you are more productive, it seems like a strange idea and yet part of me wishes…
Uni at last
So, i`m sat in the cafe in the student union building. Starting my first day back, I finished a HND in 2006 and have just came back to do the last two years of the Bsc Honours degree In Computing. I think in an effort to get me writing I am going to do some…
Nano
So, its almost September. Two months until the crazy people start that mad dash to complete 50k words in a month. I have attempted this feat for the last two years and coincidentally both years I have stalled at around 11k words. I am determined that this year I will not fail, so I am…
B Day
Well it’s time, Saturday is Batman day. Off to see it with a friend, cannot wait! Have to say the first batman was fantastic, then the franchise went downhill to that catastrophe Batman & Robin………. The reboot was a master-stroke, absolutely love Nolans version of Batman. It is a pity that this latest one is…
When do you call yourself a writer?
When reading Writing magazines and looking at online Writers forums, you come across this question quite often; I have found that the answer seems to always lie with the particular Writer. So I thought I would add my opinion into the mix. I have loved reading since I was a child, I used to devour…